The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1453 - The FBI Caught Spying On Computer Searches

00:00:00.000 The federal government can see which videos you are watching on YouTube.

00:00:04.220 Perhaps this doesn't come as a surprise to some people after years of evidence that the FBI is

00:00:10.340 spying on ordinary conservatives, Republican campaign workers, Catholics who go to the Latin 0.55

00:00:16.360 mass, and on and on. But now we know for certain. According to a new report in Forbes, federal

00:00:23.000 authorities asked Google for the names, addresses, phone numbers, and user activity of accounts that

00:00:28.740 watched certain YouTube videos in early January of last year. And if you think watching YouTube

00:00:34.320 without logging in will protect you, you are wrong. The feds also reportedly ordered Google

00:00:39.600 to hand over the IP addresses of viewers who were not logged in. The government is defending the

00:00:45.280 spying on the grounds that they are investigating a money laundering operation linked to certain

00:00:50.960 videos. But those videos had tens of thousands of views. All but one, a handful at most, of those

00:00:57.860 viewers had nothing to do with the alleged crime that was being investigated. The rest are being

00:01:03.340 spied on just because, just because they can. The reporting is bad enough. But if the federal

00:01:11.240 government currently has this power with Google in cahoots, knowing what we know about surveillance

00:01:17.300 of the American right, does anyone doubt that they can get, and very likely have gotten, identifying

00:01:24.120 information about all sorts of other political enemies? If you are watching this show on YouTube

00:01:29.480 right now, well, see you in the gulag. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:47.300 Welcome back to the show. Wayne Brady explains pansexualism, pangenderism, pansexuality to People

00:02:03.960 Magazine. You're not going to want to miss that important take on human nature and psychology.

00:02:11.220 That is coming up. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to hallow.com slash Knowles.

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00:03:31.020 That means that the Smells and Bells candle is coming to an end. You got to go to DailyWare.com

00:03:35.080 slash shop after Easter. They're gone. This is our best-selling candle ever. The other important

00:03:42.000 thing to remember about Holy Week, I was thinking this when I was at Palm Sunday Mass, and at Palm

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00:03:55.160 flagellation and persecution and finally the crucifixion. One thing I remembered, an observation

00:04:04.940 I made over the years, is that the devil works overtime during Holy Week. Things just start to

00:04:11.600 go wrong. Temptations get a little tougher. It just happens. It's like clockwork, it seems.

00:04:19.280 So watch out. Pray that ye be not led into temptation. It definitely can happen. And then

00:04:26.340 Easter is upon us. So we will, you know, have quite a lot to look forward to. In political news,

00:04:32.460 President Trump has a lot to look forward to because he might just be about to make a lot

00:04:37.500 of money. And the reason for this is Truth Social, Trump's Twitter alternative, might imminently

00:04:45.060 be about to go public. Right now, Truth Social is a private company founded by Trump. It could

00:04:51.500 go public as soon as this week. Shareholders on Friday voted to approve a merger with a shell

00:04:58.740 company. So the way that Truth Social could go public is through a SPAC, a special purpose

00:05:06.080 acquisition company, which is just a shell company that raises money without any underlying substance

00:05:13.920 to the company. The whole point of the shell company is just to acquire some other company.

00:05:18.140 And so one of the advantages to going public through a SPAC is that it can happen very quickly.

00:05:24.360 The traditional process of an IPO and of a company going public can take a very, very long time.

00:05:32.060 This could happen very, very quickly. The deal could provide Trump media with more than $300 million.

00:05:40.000 That's an interesting number because we know right now that the civil fraud judgment against Trump in

00:05:46.120 New York that he says he doesn't have the cash for started out as being $300 million and change.

00:05:51.920 Now with all the interest that the New York attorney general has added on, it's about $450 million.

00:05:58.180 But a windfall like this could be very helpful for Trump being able to maintain some of his other

00:06:03.920 properties to keep the New York Democrats from stealing Trump Tower or one of the other Trump

00:06:08.340 buildings. Based on the current share price of the shell company that could acquire Trump's Truth Social,

00:06:17.660 the boost to Trump's net worth could be like $3 billion. It could be insane because right now the shell company

00:06:28.120 is trading at nearly $42 a share, meaning Trump media, what this whole new corporation will become,

00:06:36.760 would hit the marketplace with a value of around $5 billion and Trump owns 60% of the company.

00:06:43.320 So that's a ton of numbers, but how is this possible? You're probably wondering how a social

00:06:48.760 media platform that very few people use other than President Trump, Truth Social is effectively

00:06:54.040 a platform for him to release press releases, pseudo tweets that then other people post around on the

00:07:02.720 other social media platforms. How could that possibly be worth $5 billion? Well, the explanation

00:07:07.380 is that it's kind of like a meme stock. You remember a year or two ago when people on the

00:07:13.320 internet were just boosting the price of stocks that didn't seem super valuable, like GameStop,

00:07:20.100 for instance, and they just shoot it through the roof? Something like that appears to be going on

00:07:24.340 here. And in this case, it's probably even more reflective of the will of the public because Trump is

00:07:32.280 the leading candidate for president right now. Not only is he the Republican nominee, but he's just

00:07:37.180 the leading candidate. He's just, he's doing much better than Biden. So all of that to say,

00:07:43.800 just when you think this guy is out, just when you think the libs have finally got him now,

00:07:50.660 it's Mueller time, baby. They're going to impeach him. It's Russiagate. It's Ukraine gate.

00:07:56.680 They are going to put him in jail. They're going to take his property. Just the man

00:08:01.560 cannot be put in a corner. Well, he's going to owe $400 million. There's no way that he could,

00:08:10.000 oh, wait a second. He just, money just fell out of the sky. He probably can't sell his shares in

00:08:14.800 this company anytime soon because he's the chief investor is the chief shareholder. So, you know,

00:08:19.620 if all of a sudden the thing goes public and then he dumps all the shares, that's going to tank the

00:08:22.700 stock price. But nevertheless, Trump might've pulled a rabbit out of a hat again. And the

00:08:30.060 libs are very, very upset about this. The other most important legal maneuver for Trump right now

00:08:36.840 is for the Supreme court to acknowledge that he has legal immunity for any supposed crimes that he

00:08:45.780 committed while executing his duties as president of the United States. Uh, if, if the Supreme court

00:08:53.360 rules that he doesn't have immunity, then they're going to get him for jaywalking when he was

00:08:56.460 president. Oh, he walked across Pennsylvania Avenue and he didn't look both ways and the light

00:09:01.200 was blinking. It wasn't totally red yet, but he real, you know, at least that should send him to

00:09:05.320 jail for 500 years, right? Uh, the liberals in the Democrat party and in the Republican party,

00:09:10.900 I'm talking about the Liz Cheney and the Adam Kinzinger types. They are furious at the prospect

00:09:15.640 that the court might say that the president obviously has certain legal immunities. Uh,

00:09:20.760 Kinzinger goes on CNN talks to Anderson Cooper says that if the Supreme court recognizes this fact,

00:09:29.060 democracy's over. Oh, there's a lot at stake. I mean, not just in, in terms of what it means for

00:09:35.740 this election. And obviously if the Supreme court comes back with what they expect, we expect and

00:09:40.480 say, you don't have absolute immunity, uh, then potentially this trial will proceed, but it has a

00:09:46.660 huge deal of at stake. If they come back and say there is such thing as unlimited immunity, I don't

00:09:51.680 see how the presidency and frankly, how democracy can continue. If you have a bad actor in place that

00:09:57.920 literally can get away with anything so long as he or she has the title of president in front of their

00:10:03.600 name. And, uh, so this is a very important thing for the Supreme court to take up. It may be why

00:10:08.520 they decided to take this up after the, uh, after the appellate court, but, um, they're going to have

00:10:13.320 to make their stamp and hopefully it comes out nine zero, potentially eight one, but it's going to be

00:10:18.060 a resounding defeat for Trump. I think a resounding defeat for Trump. Okay. Well, Adam Kinzinger's

00:10:23.620 powers of prophecy have not proven all that, um, effective in the past. So we'll see how he turns

00:10:28.980 that on his prediction as for his claim though. He obviously doesn't understand the meaning of

00:10:37.040 democracy. Doesn't understand much about the role of the American presidency, but, but let's say that

00:10:44.320 he's referring to just the American constitutional system saying if Trump is granted legal immunity

00:10:50.680 to execute his duties while in office, then the American constitutional system will collapse.

00:10:57.560 Not only is Kinzinger wrong as he frequently is, he's perfectly wrong. He's totally wrong.

00:11:06.620 The reality is the opposite of what Adam Kinzinger says, which also, I guess, frequently occurs.

00:11:13.800 One of the greatest aspects of the American constitutional system is that we don't throw

00:11:21.020 our vanquished leaders into prison. Not because they don't deserve it. Some of them do deserve it.

00:11:28.640 Not, and some of them deserve it a lot more than Trump does. That's for sure.

00:11:32.480 But the reason that that's a great aspect of our system is because it affords us stability.

00:11:38.320 It encourages people who are talented and in some cases, even virtuous to run for higher office.

00:11:44.900 It, it, it, uh, it, it separates us from banana republics. Okay. From tin pot dictatorships. 0.97

00:11:53.520 If we deny that, if we now say, no, actually, if you're in office and then the other party wins

00:12:01.340 after you leave office and you did anything even remotely wrong, don't forget you could indict a ham

00:12:08.760 sandwich in the United States. If any of that happens, you're going to prison for the rest of

00:12:14.100 your life. And the government's going to take all your stuff and I don't know, they're going to ship

00:12:17.640 your kids off to the gulag. If we establish that as a precedent, that will upend the American 0.89

00:12:25.140 constitutional order. Nobody worth his salt will ever run for office again. I'm not sure that anyone,

00:12:30.160 very few people do these days. Uh, it w it would be a disaster, but of course the, the people who are

00:12:37.380 always making these hysterical and histrionic claims about the upending of history and legal

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00:13:53.280 Now, getting back to videos that you might watch online. I hope you don't watch them online, but

00:14:01.200 statistically, some people listening will. There is a former teacher that has just lost another job

00:14:10.180 after employers have discovered her OnlyFans account, her self-run porn page. I have instructed

00:14:21.440 my producers, by the way, not to include any pictures of her or anything like that because I

00:14:26.500 don't want to inadvertently advertise her new business or her name or anything like that.

00:14:33.380 As I mentioned, it's Holy Week. Temptations maybe get a little more intense as the devil

00:14:37.420 works over time. But I really wanted to cover this story because it has a little bit to do with weird

00:14:43.260 sex stuff and modern culture, but it also gets to just a basic truth about human nature, which is

00:14:48.980 you can't live multiple lives at the same time. You can't compartmentalize different aspects of

00:14:57.300 your life. You can't alienate yourself from yourself and expect to flourish. It's not possible.

00:15:04.540 You are a person. And modern liberal society says that what you do in private has nothing to do with

00:15:12.260 the public. And modern liberal society says, really modern, really liberal society says that, you know,

00:15:18.980 you can wake up in the morning and be a woman until about noon, and then you can be a man from noon to

00:15:24.580 two, and then you can be all the genders. We'll get to Wayne Brady in just a second, from two o'clock to

00:15:29.820 five o'clock. But it's not possible. You're just you. You're just a person. So this woman, she is 28 years

00:15:35.940 old. So sad. She's so young, and she's falling into so much scandal. She's a teacher in Missouri.

00:15:43.620 She was a teacher. Apparently, it came out. You know, I'm sure some of her students might have

00:15:49.460 been poking around the internet, and she resigned. Maybe it was one of the parents in the district.

00:15:55.420 But in any case, she resigned. She focused on her OnlyFans career. But apparently, OnlyFans wasn't

00:16:01.060 going all that well because she tried to get another job. She tried to get a job as a community 0.99

00:16:05.980 support specialist at Compass Health, and she was fired after less than a week. Why was she fired?

00:16:13.240 Unless she was really bad at, you know, fixing the copy machine or something, it's obviously because 0.94

00:16:19.220 someone there finally looked her up and realized that she was a porn star. And I feel bad for this 0.60

00:16:24.720 woman because she can't get a regular job. She can't do it. She might be able to if she came out and 1.00

00:16:30.200 said, okay, I'm not doing porn anymore, and I regret it, and here's why I discourage people from

00:16:34.740 doing it. You know, if she had a real change of heart, some real repentance, I'm sure she could get

00:16:39.080 another job. But so long as she tries to be a normal, ordinary, well-adjusted person by day

00:16:46.320 and a prostitute by night, it's not going to work. You cannot compartmentalize your life. 1.00

00:16:54.560 And I have a reasonable degree of pity and sympathy for young women who are falling into

00:17:00.960 these problems, not just OnlyFans or porn, but all of the pitfalls of the sexual revolution and

00:17:07.000 feminism. The notion that you should put off getting married, put off having kids, you should go sleep 1.00

00:17:10.760 around with a million guys, you should go work in the widget factory for Mr. McGillicuddy until you're

00:17:15.040 barren. I have a great deal of sympathy and pity for these women because they've been told this all

00:17:19.880 their lives. And another lie that they've been told all their lives is this even more fundamental

00:17:25.340 lie that you can be multiple people. That's what a schizophrenic society says. You can just be multiple

00:17:32.860 people. Frankly, this is one of the dangers of making an idol out of pluralism, where you don't

00:17:39.320 take any of your commitments too seriously. You don't take any of the priorities of obligation and

00:17:45.820 charity too seriously. You say, yeah, man, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. I'm all things to all

00:17:51.760 people at all times. Well, no, you're not. You're not really. And if you don't have a grounding in

00:18:00.280 a basic sense of who you are, your identity, your integrity, the moral order, how to discern between

00:18:09.060 right and wrong and why you ought to choose right over wrong, then when you are interacting with your

00:18:14.740 multiple obligations to trying to persuade multiple people in that sense, being all things to all men,

00:18:19.720 you're going to lose yourself. You're going to lose your identity and you're not going to succeed

00:18:23.760 at anything. Don't fall for it. Now, speaking of full on weird sex stuff, Wayne Brady. I'd forgotten

00:18:30.000 this until this headline trended over the weekend. Wayne Brady, the guy from Whose Line Is It Anyway? and

00:18:36.040 just a popular comedian and musician too. He came out as pansexual a few years ago. Wayne Brady had been

00:18:46.800 married. I always thought he was like, he was married to two women or something like that. You know, he had,

00:18:53.120 even though I, frankly, you know, we've had all sorts of conversations about divorce and marriage and I, I

00:18:59.140 actually don't think it's possible to be married to multiple people, but that's a conversation for another

00:19:02.820 time. I had a long debate with Pearl Davis about this, which is available on my YouTube channel. In any case,

00:19:08.900 the guy always seemed relatively straight by showbiz standards. And then he came out and he said, no, I'm not only am I

00:19:13.720 not straight, I'm not even gay. I'm not even bisexual. I'm pansexual. And no one knows what that is. So Wayne Brady

00:19:21.740 just explained it in an exclusive to People magazine.

00:19:25.760 What do you feel like has been the biggest misconception about what it means to identify as pansexual? And a lot of people,

00:19:31.540 that's a foreign term to them, even amongst, you know, queer people. So for you, what has been like

00:19:35.960 the biggest misconception as you've encountered people since you've come out?

00:19:39.520 It was, I had to do research and find out what it was that I was, yeah, I think the biggest

00:19:44.280 misconception, and I even make a joke about it on station night, is that, is that they, people think

00:19:51.720 that you're an indecisive bisexual. It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let me set you straight. 1.00

00:19:57.280 What the definition basically boils down to is regardless of gender, regardless. So that

00:20:05.740 means that I am happily free to fall in love with anybody here. If you're gay, if you're 0.98

00:20:15.780 straight, if you're non-binary, trans, I don't care. It's the person, which in my mind is the

00:20:22.900 ultimate in acceptance and loving. So I win.

00:20:29.300 So I win. I win. I'm the most liberal. I'm the most open-minded. I win is what it boils down to.

00:20:37.760 I think for a lot of people, all the weird sex madness does boil down to, I want to win.

00:20:43.620 I want to be the best. I want to be the most open-minded. I want to have the most options.

00:20:48.160 I want to be the most free man and the most liberated. And so that means eschewing

00:20:55.280 terms like straight or gay. It means eschewing even terms like bisexual, because bisexual implies 1.00

00:21:03.060 that there are two sexes, and you're not allowed to say that anymore. No, I'm, means eschewing 1.00

00:21:08.940 terms like trans and cis. Cis is, as the late great Norm Macdonald said, cis is a term to

00:21:16.540 marginalize normal people. It means you, you know what sex you are and you accept it. 1.00

00:21:24.600 Means I'm totally open, man. But of course, there's a anthropological error. There are many,

00:21:32.620 but, but one that is less often discussed here that he's talking about is he says, I don't care

00:21:39.600 if you're a man or a woman, if you're straight or gay, if you're trans or not trans, if you're this or

00:21:44.980 that. I just care about the person. This is one of these really insidious errors of modernity.

00:21:51.660 The notion that your true self has nothing to do with what you look like, where you come from,

00:22:00.640 any of your attributes or what you do, your habits, your virtues, your vices, your inclinations,

00:22:08.400 your desires, your, and that's not really you. Those are all just accidents. Your, your sex, 0.90

00:22:15.720 your race, your geography, your behavior, your, all of that's just, that's not, I want the real person, 1.00

00:22:24.580 man. You've, by, by denying the importance of all of those attributes, you have just erased the person.

00:22:33.020 What else is a person? What makes up his personality? It's all those things and a whole

00:22:39.940 host of other things. But, but what, what this project of liberation specifically focused on the

00:22:46.300 sexual revolution always comes down to is a fundamental lie, a tragic deceit, which is in an

00:22:54.320 effort to liberate the person, to liberate the individual by denying the importance of all these

00:23:02.840 characteristics of the individual. You totally abolish the individual. When you dig down deep

00:23:08.980 enough and you, you throw off all of the supposed detritus, you know, you throw off all of the, 0.88

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00:24:06.480 a variety of gripping conversations and debates and I always look really handsome and I, whoever wrote

00:24:13.920 this copy today, needs a raise. This is really good stuff. So we've had a long conversation with

00:24:20.720 my friend Father Rehill, an exorcist, has something like 5 million views. Highly recommend you check it

00:24:25.640 out. We have interviewed Jacob Chansley from, you know, the Horn Hat guy from January 6th. Really

00:24:32.380 interesting guy. All these hours-long conversations. Well, one of the most requested topics was to

00:24:37.620 interview someone from the red pill movement. And we invited one or two people, I think, to sit down.

00:24:43.680 And then the last minute, they didn't want to sit down. It's kind of funny because they're all really

00:24:49.860 macho and everything, but then they wouldn't actually come and have a conversation. But the

00:24:53.380 one who did, ironically, is a woman named Pearl Davis. So we had a debate about marriage, sat down

00:24:59.800 with Pearl for something like two hours, probably I think more than two hours. Here's a little taste.

00:25:05.100 But I'll see guys that take you guys' advice. And sometimes, you know, it ruins their life.

00:25:11.300 What would men do if they begged you for advice? Again, I'm not in the business of telling men what

00:25:16.500 to do, you know. But I think you kind of are. Well, what percent of women do you think are 1.00

00:25:20.120 marriageable? I think you're squirting the issue. People are not going to return to marriage until

00:25:24.560 you make the institution more fair. Well, what they'll do is they'll return. It doesn't matter

00:25:27.740 what you say. It doesn't matter what I say. You guys have been preaching marriage for a decade.

00:25:32.080 And the rates of marriage have still been going down. Why? Because the cost is too high and the

00:25:37.080 quality of women is too low. How do you fix it? Do you want to get married? 1.00

00:25:41.300 The full episode is now available on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel and my X channel. Not my

00:25:53.640 personal X channel. It's the Michael Knowles Show X channel, which the Michael Knowles X channel

00:25:58.560 retweets. That's a lot. It's kind of like Truth Social with the shell companies. You know,

00:26:02.640 there's shells of shells of shells. Anyway, you can watch it all over there. Or if you are a member

00:26:07.060 at Daily Wire Plus, head on over there. Go over to Daily Wire Plus right now. Check it out.

00:26:13.500 Speaking of women, turning to somewhat more traditional women, there has been a major

00:26:20.760 tabloid scandal, which is that Catherine, the princess of Wales, has been missing since January.

00:26:28.160 She, this is the future queen of England, Prince William's wife. She was said to have had abdominal

00:26:35.340 surgery, but then she just kind of disappeared. And there were theories that William was fathering

00:26:43.780 children out of wedlock or something. Again, no evidence for any of this whatsoever. Someone said

00:26:48.280 she was dead and there was like a body double or something. People were coming up with all sorts.

00:26:52.900 Pretty soon they're going to say, you know, she's identified as pansexual and she's doing a roadshow

00:26:58.280 with Wayne Brady. Well, the gossip and the guessing game can all be over now because the princess of

00:27:06.860 Wales has come out and explained why she's been out of sight. And it poses a real risk, not just to

00:27:15.600 their family, but to the British monarchy. I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you personally.

00:27:22.900 For all the wonderful messages of support and for your understanding whilst I've been recovering

00:27:28.200 from surgery. It has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family,

00:27:34.340 but I've had a fantastic medical team who have taken great care of me, for which I'm so grateful.

00:27:40.580 In January, I underwent major abdominal surgery in London, and at the time, it was thought that my

00:27:46.800 condition was non-cancerous. The surgery was successful. However, tests after the operation,

00:27:52.880 found cancer had been present. My medical team therefore advised that I should undergo a course

00:27:59.640 of preventative chemotherapy, and I'm now in the early stages of that treatment.

00:28:03.760 This, of course, came as a huge shock, and William and I have been doing everything we can to process

00:28:11.920 and manage this privately for the sake of our young family.

00:28:15.180 So, there are still going to be all sorts of theories. This, to me, seems to explain it.

00:28:22.640 Because apparently, the kids were ending their school term before the Easter recess, and so they

00:28:26.860 wanted to wait to tell the kids first so that there wouldn't be a media firestorm that the future

00:28:31.400 queen of England has cancer at the same time that the current king of England, King Charles,

00:28:36.940 has cancer. And obviously, this puts a lot of pressure on Prince William. There are going to be

00:28:41.840 some Americans out there who say, well, who cares? Who cares about these people? I haven't cared about

00:28:45.480 these people since 1776. First of all, I care just because she seems like a lovely woman. She's a

00:28:50.720 very dignified woman, and we should all pray for her and for her recovery and for Charles too, King

00:28:56.300 Charles. But why? Why do Americans care? They do care. This has been trending all over American

00:29:02.740 tabloids too. It's not just the British tabloids. Why? Why does monarchy, or aspects of monarchy at

00:29:10.760 least, endure throughout history? We kid ourselves in the United States. We say, we got rid of the

00:29:17.280 monarchy. Oh, did we? Because I was just at the State of the Union two weeks ago, and there was a

00:29:21.500 lot of pomp and circumstance over there. I'm not saying that the American president is a king. Though we

00:29:28.520 have had American presidents who effectively have been kings, notably Franklin Roosevelt was the

00:29:33.260 American monarch. The guy reigned for four terms, died in office. Good luck trying to distinguish,

00:29:43.740 just on pure aesthetics, to distinguish Franklin Roosevelt from any of the supposedly autocratic

00:29:51.020 leaders of his age or even from a proper monarch. Why is that? Why is that enduring? Because we live in

00:29:58.200 society, that's what politics is, and we need representatives. Even in democracy, we need

00:30:05.520 representatives. That's why we call our system of government a representative democracy. But we also

00:30:09.660 have one particular representative in the United States, which is the president. People don't get

00:30:14.540 really all that jazzed about their congressmen. People don't really get all that jazzed about their

00:30:18.300 senators. But people get really fired up about their presidential candidates and their presidents.

00:30:23.480 Because we, it's just human nature. We just, we care about people. You know, we're a mimetic animal. We

00:30:32.600 imitate people. We cultivate and form our desires based on the desires of other people. And we follow

00:30:40.240 leaders. That's just how it works. And so the monarchy in the United Kingdom has been a huge plus for

00:30:48.220 them. And one of the problems with the monarchy is that a lot, there are a lot of dodgy characters

00:30:53.440 in it. Like Prince William was gallivanting with, what's his name? Jeffrey Epstein. I can't believe

00:31:00.100 I almost said Jerry Epstein. That's a, it's amazing. They managed to memory hole that guy so well that I

00:31:05.500 almost forgot his first name. But you know, you've got that scandal. There were all the scandals in the

00:31:09.260 90s with Prince Charles and Diana. William and Catherine seem to be really dignified. And I think

00:31:20.700 if the British monarchy is able to survive, it will be because of that. And this is really something

00:31:27.140 to look for, I think, just even in our own personal lives here. Catherine is bae. All right.

00:31:33.960 Catherine, people like, people like her. They like her more than they like Meghan Markle.

00:31:36.960 Because Meghan Markle is not dignified at all. She's extremely undignified. And this woman, 1.00

00:31:42.640 this woman, after people have been suggesting that, you know, her husband is cheating on her

00:31:48.020 and they're suggesting that she's dead and they've been suggesting all these terrible things. She

00:31:50.740 comes at, she says, thank you so much for all your cares and concerns. Thank you. That's really

00:31:55.720 dignified behavior. And that's very attractive, especially in an age that is extremely undignified

00:32:01.740 and downright shameless. So we pray for her recovery. And perhaps we ought to try to emulate

00:32:08.700 a little bit of that grace and dignity. Speaking of the British Commonwealth, Justin Trudeau,

00:32:16.360 reputed child of Fidel Castro, though I actually don't believe that theory.

00:32:20.780 Trudeau is now threatening to cut off Canadian arms sales to Israel. It was a story from last week,

00:32:27.420 but I really wanted to get to it. Canada's arms exports to Israel are pretty much immaterial

00:32:33.300 compared to the US, which funds six and a half percent of the Israeli military.

00:32:37.460 Canada's arms sales don't really matter all that much. It amounts to less than 90 million bucks over

00:32:41.800 the last nine years. But nevertheless, this is a PR loss for the Israeli state. And you're probably

00:32:49.740 going to see more of this from around the world. Why is it? Well, Justin Trudeau is pretty liberal

00:32:54.540 and support for the state of Israel has declined broadly, but especially among leftists, it has

00:33:02.900 declined. This was only a matter of time before the Trudeau government did something like this.

00:33:08.480 Other governments certainly will follow. This is the direction the left is headed. And it's a reminder

00:33:14.080 for the American right, this is a good wedge issue. They're always trying to get us on wedge issues.

00:33:20.920 For instance, the left was trying to get the right to make IVF the top issue in the 2024 election

00:33:26.820 some weeks ago because the American right is just split on it. I mean, you see this even among the

00:33:32.280 elected politicians. Some view IVF as bioethically unacceptable because it, practically speaking,

00:33:41.340 usually results in a lot of abortion and just as a basic matter undercuts so many of the other

00:33:49.400 conservative arguments about the sanctity of life and life beginning at conception and all the rest

00:33:53.200 of it. It undercuts the family. It promotes all sorts of deviant behaviors and relationships,

00:33:59.160 and it just has a lot of problems. But then other people on the right say, hey, look, if a couple

00:34:04.200 struggles with fertility, then they should have this option to be able to go to the baby store 0.99

00:34:08.140 some doctor and give the doctor six figures and then be able to make a baby. And I'm being

00:34:14.860 somewhat uncharitable to that view, but it's a very popular view. It's actually probably the

00:34:19.440 predominant view on the right. So the libs were just bashing us with this issue for a while. 0.93

00:34:24.400 Well, the Israel issue is a good one to hit them with because the elite libs, the leading libs 0.99

00:34:29.360 in the political establishment are very pro-Israel. The more left-wing libs and the base libs are very

00:34:37.360 anti-Israel. And as this war continues to go on, this war has been going on since October of

00:34:42.000 2023, that tension is going to get even tougher. So not a bad issue for the Republicans to point to

00:34:51.160 in 2024. Speaking of the left, a new sexuality has dropped. Even since I had Wayne Brady explain to us

00:35:02.240 pansexualism, there's, there is now a new sexuality, a new identity group that of course would be 0.52

00:35:07.040 eco-sexuality. Libs, take it away. Hey everyone. My name's Georgia. I'm

00:35:13.580 normal's in-house sex coach. And today I want to speak about eco-sexuality. This is an umbrella term

00:35:20.420 for people who treat nature as a central partner or something that they want to protect and celebrate

00:35:27.300 rather than a resource that they want to exploit. How a person actually practices and expresses their

00:35:34.420 eco-sexuality is completely up to them. And often it will be quite unique. Whilst it's certainly not

00:35:43.580 new, I'm hearing of more and more people interested in this identity or this expression. For some people,

00:35:52.360 it might mean they feel erotically charged by having their feet on the ground and breathing,

00:35:58.520 becoming aware of how their body feels to be present with the earth. Others, it may be actually

00:36:04.460 touching, exploring food and nature, feeling the textures and sensations. For other people, it might

00:36:13.000 mean having sex outdoors. And for others, it may actually mean that they're literally having sex with 0.68

00:36:20.000 the earth. Lover earth, not mother earth. Am I right? So however you like to explore it, do some

00:36:28.040 research, explore whether it's exciting for you, and smell a few flowers. The tone of her voice does

00:36:35.980 not match what she's saying. Though this is the perfect impression of NPR or PBS, you know, where the

00:36:43.640 libs say all sorts of egregious, ridiculous things. But they say them, you know, in a really calm voice.

00:36:49.680 We're going to arrest Donald Trump and all of his supporters. We're going to take away all of your

00:36:55.140 property. We're going to skin you alive and we're going to throw your balls of flesh, your just 1.00

00:37:03.060 crumpled masses of humanity into a gulag until the dogs eat you. Please be sure to donate now and 1.00

00:37:09.600 we'll send you a tote bag. That's kind of what this woman's doing. She's saying, yes, you know, look, 0.80

00:37:14.120 ecosexuality can mean you like nature. It can mean that you enjoy going for a walk in your garden. 0.55

00:37:22.080 And it can mean that you feel a little, you know, a little special when you're out at the beach.

00:37:28.260 And it could also mean that you copulate with the ground. Wait, huh? You know, like a mole hole or

00:37:37.400 something like that, you know, in the middle of your median or something. Yes. Very, very weird and

00:37:42.020 very gross. She does beat Wayne Brady though, because Wayne Brady says, I'm a pansexual and 0.94

00:37:48.460 that means I can be attracted. I can love anyone here. And what this woman's saying is, oh yeah,

00:37:56.260 well, checkmate, sir. I'm an ecosexual and I can love anything here. Not just, you've limited,

00:38:04.820 you're so close-minded, Wayne Brady and pansexuals. You've limited your attraction to the set of

00:38:12.200 people. But mine is so much bigger because I can love trees. What does this mean? When the woman 1.00

00:38:18.060 started out her explanation, it sounded to me like she was just describing a normal thing,

00:38:26.380 which is people like going to the beach, people like nature. Then it seemed to get into something

00:38:30.920 a little more intense. What ecosexuality can mean is really one of two things. It can either be

00:38:36.740 nature worship, actual pagan nature worship, like fetishism. The term fetish is used today, but

00:38:43.700 fetish refers specifically to a pagan idol that you worship. And there's a connection between these

00:38:49.440 things. We read about ancient paganism and we think that, you know, they were all, because we impose 0.94

00:38:55.680 our own religious experience onto it. We think they were all kind of orderly and nice and just

00:38:59.600 bowing down to a statue or something. No, they were having crazy orgies and killing people and getting 0.91

00:39:04.720 extremely drunk and doing drugs and just, it's nuts. You know, it was much more Woodstock than,

00:39:10.820 you know, going to some kind of a church on Sunday. So it could be that. It could be a really extreme

00:39:16.680 form of nature worship, which pagan societies have done for all of history. Or, I mean, 0.80

00:39:22.600 that would be disturbing enough because it would mean we're a post-Christian society. We're just 0.98

00:39:26.220 reverting to paganism as apostates. But almost more depressing, I think what this ecosexuality 1.00

00:39:34.780 thing might largely come down to is a conflation of all relations, all attractions, all desires

00:39:40.800 into sex. And you see this all around today. People aren't allowed to have friends anymore.

00:39:48.840 Especially men. If two men talk about anything other than football, if two men

00:39:56.680 have any kind of a deep friendship, it's called gay, either jokingly or seriously.

00:40:07.340 And even if the guys, you know, the guys like girls, the guys are not, they don't like each other in

00:40:11.280 that way, but they like each other. Women, if women have too close a friendship, now it's just called 1.00

00:40:16.100 lesbian. But obviously we have loves and desires and attractions that are not sexual. At least

00:40:21.500 we used to be able to do that. I certainly have that. I love my family. You know, I love my aunt

00:40:26.800 Betty. I don't love her like that. You know, I love my children. I don't, but I love my wife very

00:40:34.000 differently than I love my children or the rest of my family. I love my friends. I love my friends very

00:40:38.620 differently than I love my wife. I love nature. I like taking long walks on the beach too. I don't love

00:40:43.720 the beach like I love my wife. What modern liberalism has done though, is just bring

00:40:51.020 everything down, not even to the level of the erotic, because erotic love can be ennobling and

00:40:56.300 inspiring and lead us to the ultimate, the source and summit of all of our loves, who is God. I mean,

00:41:00.720 that's what the Divine Comedy is all about. Dante loves this woman, Beatrice, not even his wife,

00:41:04.380 and she leads him up to God. But it's even worse than that because it's not even just erotic. It's just

00:41:10.820 this kind of material, just like sex. You just do sex. You know, you're just bumping uglies all the 0.99

00:41:16.600 time. That's basically what all of our loves are. Our friendships, our professional relationships,

00:41:21.680 our familial relationships, and including our romantic and erotic relationships. All just

00:41:29.040 boils down to that, and no wonder people are now stupping the earth. The Divided States of Biden

00:41:35.480 with Ben Shapiro has its second episode out. It's focused on how fentanyl has become America's

00:41:43.260 silent epidemic. Many know what fentanyl is, but do you know that it's the number one killer of

00:41:49.140 adults ages 18 to 49, claiming an average of 295 lives per day, and that the Biden administration is

00:41:53.960 completely silent? In fact, Joe Biden's policies make it easier for fentanyl to be distributed and

00:41:59.260 sold around the country, allowing it to fall into the hands of any American, many of them very young.

00:42:03.980 Ben Shapiro uncovers the fentanyl crisis in one of the most affected cities in the latest episode of

00:42:08.500 The Divided States of Biden. Watch The Divided States of Biden, fentanyl, America's silent epidemic,

00:42:14.720 now exclusively on Daily Wire Plus. My favorite comment yesterday is from Charbar, who says,

00:42:21.220 I had a childhood stutter that went away in my late teens, spent several years in speech therapy,

00:42:25.320 where the therapist would tell me about all the famous people who had a childhood stutter,

00:42:28.840 none of them ever mentioned, Senator Joe Biden. I know it's so, so offensive. It's maybe the worst

00:42:37.140 gaslighting. It's the worst kind of obvious lie that makes us all think we're crazy that they tell

00:42:44.180 about Biden. Joe Biden has been a very public person for 50 years. The guy entered the Senate in 1972.

00:42:54.060 And we've all heard him a million times. He never stops talking. None of us have ever heard him

00:43:02.000 stutter. But because he's in cognitive decline and he can't speak very well right now, they told us in

00:43:08.680 2020, they said, ah, yes, it's a result of Joe Biden's childhood stutter that we've all heard him

00:43:15.180 suffer from for all of his life. We all have. Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. 0.97

00:43:21.920 And I kid you not, I have Democrat friends, relatives who are of a certain age, you know,

00:43:29.280 been around for a long time. And I said, this is totally crazy, this Biden stutter thing. They

00:43:33.240 said, no, no, no, actually, apparently, according to the news reports, he's always had it. But you

00:43:38.840 know, he hasn't. You've heard him. He was the vice president for eight years and he was a U.S.

00:43:42.960 senator for the latter part of the 20th century into the early 21st century. You know, no, we don't know.

00:43:50.280 No, no, these are not the droids we're looking for. Okay. Speaking of crazy people,

00:43:56.520 John Hinckley Jr. For the younger listeners, this is a name you might not have heard of before. He's 0.64

00:44:03.680 the man who tried to kill Ronald Reagan and who ultimately is guilty of murdering Reagan's press

00:44:09.560 secretary, James Brady, even though he just severely paralyzed him. And then, but I think on Brady's

00:44:17.220 death certificate, it says complications of being shot, you know, after some years, a guy,

00:44:23.920 total nut. He was sent to a mental institution because he was able to claim insanity. And actually,

00:44:31.160 after that judgment, which many people thought was unjust, it became a lot harder to plead not

00:44:36.400 guilty for reason of insanity. But he was in this loony bin for much of his life. And then he was just

00:44:43.760 kind of released. And it was, I felt extremely outrageous and unjust for him to be released,

00:44:50.460 but it barely even made a splash. People kind of forgot. They moved on. We live in a very anti-prison

00:44:55.220 age and the libs in the establishment hate Reagan anyway. So some of them probably wish that Hinckley

00:45:01.640 had succeeded. So they let him out. And what is Hinckley doing? He's a musician now.

00:45:06.720 Hinckley has been trying to play venues. He's tried to become a singer.

00:45:10.140 However, he's 68 years old. So he's really, I mean, he committed this crime at a very young age.

00:45:16.180 But a lot of the venues don't want to have him. So now the man who tried to murder President Reagan

00:45:21.200 is claiming to be a victim of cancel culture.

00:45:26.380 Here's what he says. He says, I think that's fair to say. I'm a victim of cancel culture.

00:45:31.700 It keeps happening over and over again. They book me and then the show gets announced and then the

00:45:37.020 venue starts getting backlash. The owners always cave. They cancel. It's happened so many times.

00:45:42.200 It's kind of what I expect. I don't really get upset. That's big of him. He doesn't get upset.

00:45:47.680 I'm just caught up in the cancel culture, I guess. It would be a venue for new artists,

00:45:53.980 distinguished artists, and they wouldn't get canceled at the last minute, but I'm getting canceled.

00:45:57.960 Yeah. I think the phrase cancel culture, I think we have to retire it. If a man is complaining

00:46:06.900 about being canceled after trying to murder the very popular president, then I don't think cancel

00:46:14.700 culture means all that much anymore. You'll remember at a time when the right really embraced

00:46:20.100 this phrase. Everyone was just constantly, we need to cancel cancel culture. Cancel culture is terrible.

00:46:25.980 Well, I, in typically contrarian fashion, while everyone was zigging, I zagged on that issue,

00:46:32.640 not just to be a contrarian, but because it just wasn't my view of free speech. I wrote a whole book

00:46:36.500 called Speechless about this, available now. Thank you. You can get it wherever fine books are sold,

00:46:41.420 which said the issue isn't cancel culture because all cultures cancel because all cultures have

00:46:46.280 standards and norms and taboos. So if we're suddenly invading against standards and norms,

00:46:52.380 for goodness sakes, are, are we conservatives? I thought conservatives were the people with

00:46:56.200 standards. I thought we were the people who said, actually, you know, certain behaviors are kind of

00:47:00.420 off limits. Actually guys, let's have a little self-respect. Let's live in a, a serious flourishing

00:47:05.020 country. Let's not just behave like animals. Okay. No, we cancel culture. I wouldn't even say it's

00:47:11.400 good. It's just, that's how, that is what culture is, right? Culture is known by its limits,

00:47:16.440 just like a nation is known by its geographical limit. A culture is known by its limits of taboo.

00:47:22.780 And that's just the way it goes. And that's a good thing. We need to just set good standards,

00:47:26.460 not, not dumb standards like the libs do today. But, but if now, as I guess was inevitable,

00:47:34.300 if, if a man is arguing that murdering the president should be within the acceptable bounds

00:47:40.460 of society that he shouldn't be canceled, well, just because I tried to murder the guy who won

00:47:45.940 49 states, maybe 50 states in 1984, well, just because of that, I'm going to get canceled.

00:47:50.720 I thought, oh, I thought this was the party of free speech. I guess we're not, I don't know. I guess

00:47:55.700 that's my limit. I guess you murder the president. That's it. We need to hang that up. We need to hang 0.99

00:47:59.880 that up. I think it's perfectly fine to cancel John Hinckley Jr. Speaking of career changes,

00:48:05.960 before we go, I wanted to leave you with a little terrible news. Representative Mike Gallagher

00:48:11.800 is resigning from Congress. Now, Mike Gallagher, kind of a squish, but I haven't even followed him 0.97

00:48:18.760 all that closely. He voted against impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, the worst Homeland Security

00:48:24.340 Secretary ever. That vote alone, you know, I think earns him the epithet squish. He's leaving. He's a

00:48:33.660 Republican from Wisconsin, and he's not even going to wait until the end of his term. This is the

00:48:39.680 problem. It'd be one thing if he were waiting until the end of his term and then just sort of

00:48:44.140 quietly went away and were replaced by some other Republican who was about the same or maybe even

00:48:48.980 more conservative. Who knows? But he's not doing that. He is leaving Congress now, which means that

00:48:55.240 the Republicans will have effectively a one vote majority in Congress. It's not technically a one vote

00:49:03.360 majority. It will be 217 to 213. 217 Republicans, 213 Democrats. You say, no, they got a four vote

00:49:12.320 majority, right? No, they don't. Because if one guy flips, all of a sudden, it's 216 to 214.

00:49:23.560 Which means you can't afford to lose enough. You can now afford to lose one squish vote on conservative 0.87

00:49:28.920 legislation in the House. But don't forget, the Republican Party has a lot of squishes.

00:49:33.720 This is why I couldn't get so angry at Nikki Haley when during her presidential campaign, 1.00

00:49:38.480 she made a decision to appeal directly to the libs and the squishes and the centrists.

00:49:44.120 I felt it was actually kind of a smart thing to do for her campaign because she was never going to 0.86

00:49:47.480 win in the Trump lane. She was never going to win in the conservative lane. That was already taken.

00:49:50.560 So she appealed to the squishes. And I said, look, she has every right to stay in the race 1.00

00:49:53.700 because there are a lot of more establishment type Republicans in the party. I'm not saying it's

00:49:58.520 enough to win, but call it a quarter of the party or something. And she's catering to them. 1.00

00:50:03.240 Well, that's represented in the House too. You think that Republicans are going to be able to

00:50:08.400 maintain the unity such that only one guy can switch over to the Democrats? Not possible, not possible.

00:50:16.500 So with the resignation of Mike Gallagher, as far as I'm concerned, as far as I can tell,

00:50:23.420 the Republicans have just practically lost their majority in the House. It's not that the Democrats

00:50:27.420 have a majority in the House now. The Republicans can still kind of gum things up because they'll

00:50:31.200 have the leadership technically, but it's over. And how did we get here? Well, we got here because

00:50:37.320 Republicans stupidly kicked out George Santos, the kind of wacky guy from Long Island. Not saying Santos 0.97

00:50:42.320 was great or even deserved re-election. But to boot him out midterm, that really hit your majority.

00:50:47.520 And then you had resignations. And now you've got more scandals cropping up as the election comes.

00:50:51.720 And now you've got people just dropping out. Ken Buck just resigning midterm so that he can spite

00:50:56.680 Lauren Boebert, a more conservative member, but she seems weaker because she's had all these PR

00:51:03.520 scandals. So, okay, there goes another vote for the majority. And now Mike Gallagher's out.

00:51:07.780 There it is. Leave it to the Republicans in an election year to clutch defeat from the jaws

00:51:17.600 of victory. It raises the stakes all the more for 2024. We're all focused on the presidential

00:51:23.000 race in 2024, rightly so. You got Sinema, Kyrsten Sinema, resigning in Arizona. She is a Democrat

00:51:30.560 who's kind of independent. All of a sudden, now the Senate is up for grabs. Now you got Gallagher out in

00:51:36.780 the House. All of a sudden, the House majority has evaporated. Now the House is going to be a

00:51:41.500 major, major playing field. Everything's up in 2024. Whether you're feeling good about the race,

00:51:47.340 whether you're feeling bad about it. Pretty much the whole government is up for grabs.

00:51:52.480 Rest of the show continues. Now, you don't want to miss it. It's Music Monday, baby. Become a member.

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